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Core Infrastructure

103 VOTE

RMF Monitor I Device activity should report about devices that were offline on a part of an interval

System: z/OS USER which uses RMF Actor: User needing RMF Monitor I Device activity report enhancement Description: RMF is a commonly used product on z/OS platform for reporting system resource such as I/O activity. Our customer encountered HyperSw...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Advanced Data Gatherer Future consideration

Extend the z/OSMF Parmlib Syntax Validation REST API with an additional parameter to specify the z/OS release of the selected Parmlib.

This feature is needed to successfully check Parmlibs of older z/OS versions. Some Parmlib parameters are z/OS release specific and would fail a syntax check of another release. This property should be taken into account by the REST interface. You...
4 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

make z/OS FTP does support MLSD

z/OS FTP does not support MLSD, therefore, in Filzilla and other FTP clients, files with more than 99 exdents are not displayed in the file list, with MLSD this would be possible
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server Future consideration

Allow multiple z/OSMF server tasks to share a common data repository within a SYSPLEX

We would like to be able to run multiple z/OSMF servers tasks in a SYSPLEX that can be used to manage Software install, Zert, PAGENT policies (or anything else that has persistent data) in addition to REST APIs. Currently the persistent data canno...
7 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration
178 VOTE

Full ISPF Support for PDSE V2 Generations

ISPF needs to fully support PDSE V2 generations. Currently ISPF Edit supports creating a new generation when a member is saved but none of the other ISPF services recognize a generation. Access to prior generations is not intuitive and thus effect...
about 10 years ago in z/OS / ISPF Future consideration

Deliver security / integrity / vulnerability notification information in a consistent field delineated format

Security / integrity and vulnerability notifications may be difficult to obtain, assess, correlate and act upon. Format and delivery mechanisms are obtuse, inconsistent at an industry level or may be missing altogether. Leaving each customer expos...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / General Future consideration

Listuser command allows for 'enumeriation' of valid userids

As seen below. When one does a "LU <EXISTING USER>" you get the message : "NOT AUTHORIZED TO LIST IBMUSER"When the user it not present on the system, you get the message "UNABLE TO LOCATE USER ENTRY NOTHERE" It would be better if the reply i...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / RACF Future consideration

Writing & reading several records to/from a data set w/ multi-byte encoding causes TSO servlet timeout

Using the z/OSMF ReST API, writing 810 or more records to a data set with a multi-byte encoding (such as IBM-937) causes the request to timeout after the given response timeout has elapsed. Create a physical, sequential data set NEW.DATASET with...
5 months ago in z/OS / z/OSMF Future consideration

Add a confirmation panel for Free command in ISPF command line.

In ISPF add a confirmation panel for Free command. My customers want this fucntion. Becase they wants to prohibit thier datasets from being compressed unintentional.
8 months ago in z/OS / ISPF Future consideration

SDSF - Module Fetch Monitor - add OWNER, STEPNAME, STEPNUM, and PROCSTEP

Adding the these fields will make the facility more useful for being able to collect data about module usage.
24 days ago in z/OS / SDSF Future consideration

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